DHHS Secretary: Medicaid system not sustainable

Wos explains NC overhaul of Medicaid

9:44 PM,
Apr. 22, 2013

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Saying the current Medicaid system "is not sustainable," the head of the state Department of Health and Human Services reviewed her vision for overhauling the system during a meeting with local health care providers Monday.

"We are set up in silos. ... We have the physical care separated from the mental health care often separated from substance abuse and all other forms of care we give," Aldona Wos said Monday. "That model presently in 2013 is not sustainable."

Wos, a physician, and state Medicaid Director Carol Steckel spoke to more than 200 people, including doctors, hospital ...